Proof! Bananas! Statistics!
When a company or researcher needs to distinguish two treatments, products, or anything else, they use statistical processes to get conclusive results. One of the statistical tests that is the most useful is the ANOVA test. The ANOVA test can find statistical difference between multiple samples.
As part of my Statistical Quality Assurance and Experimental Design class, I had to do an experiment and analysis. I chose to look at banana decay. I wanted to see if bananas left on the counter lasted longer than bananas in the refrigerator. It turns out that the banana’s left in the fridge (Treatment 2) last the longest. Note the picture:
After finishing the experiment, I was sure that the bananas from the fridge were the least decayed; but could I prove that statistically? Once I ran all of the numbers on the bananas, I could. You can read the Banana Project Report for details where the ANOVA test proves that bananas kept in the fridge last longer. Here is a graph of my results:
I can post more later, but you get an idea about how things went. It took 20 hours to turn all of my pictures into data… It became a little tiresome.
Did your research discover why a teenager would deliberately leave a banana in a dark corner of a cupboard in the family’s holiday accommodation, knowing it might not be found for weeks/months, resulting in an elusive, disgustingly ‘fishy’ smell pervading the entire premises?
Is it some bad joke that exists somewher on the Internet for bored youths?
Court Jester
April 10, 2008 at 6:56 pm
Hey, nice tips. Perhaps I’ll buy a bottle of beer to that person from that forum who told me to visit your blog :)
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